Alfio Contini Filmography

Ripley's Game

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Ray Winstone, Lena Headey, Chiara Caselli

Synopsis: The cool and mannered sociopath Tom Ripley returns to the big screen in director Liliana Cavani's 2002 crime thriller Ripley's Game, adapted from the 1974 novel by Patricia Highsmith. Living a life of luxury as an art dealer in northern Italy with his musician wife Luisa (Chiara Caselli), Ripley (John Malkovich Read More

Uomini Senza Donne

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This frothy sex comedy is based on a long-running Italian play and follows the romantic travails of two disparate roommates. While ad-man Alex is a suave lady killer with great confidence in his ability to seduce women, sax player Max is insecure and unsure of himself, something he soothes by Read More

Beyond the Clouds

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Malkovich, Kim Rossi Stuart, Ines Sastre, Sophie Marceau, Fanny Ardant

Synopsis: The many ways in which men are fascinated, compelled, and confused by their attraction to women are explored in this four part drama. As a filmmaker (John Malkovich) tries to sort out his plans for his next film, he considers several stories about women and the men who love them. Silvano (Kim Rossi Stuart Read More

Vörös Colibri

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This romantic thriller follows the exploits of a single mother who assists a handsome Ukranian refugee and finds nothing but trouble. Anna supports her 8-year old daughter by driving a cab. One day she observes an armed robbery at a service station. Both of the robbers are Ukranian refugees. One Read More

Mutande Pazze

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Monica Guerritore, Eva Grimaldi

Synopsis: Reviewers barked that this erstwhile sex satire attempted (unsuccessfully) to emulate the fervid taboo-breaking style of Pedro Almodóvar, but they may have been disappointed because of their fondness for the director's comedy commentary on Italian television, none of which appears in this film Read More

Riflessi In Un Cielo Scuro

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Françoise Fabian, Anna Kanakis, Valerie Perrine, Peter Stormare, Maurizio Donadoni

Synopsis: Valeria (Francoise Fabian) is a doctor, but she's also an alcoholic. Unable to do her regular work effectively, she gives that (and her family) up, so as to better devote herself to drink. However, she has an errant benevolent impulse and invites Chim (Anna Kanakis), a sluttish drug addict, to Read More

Un Piede in Paradiso

Crew: Cinematographer

Fuga Dal Paradiso

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Fabrice Josso, Ines Sastre, Horst Buchholz, Aurore Clément, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: In this post-apocalpytic adventure story, narrated by Van Johnson), Teo (Fabrice Josso) lives underground in a cave with his father, who is a member of a ruling clan. Except for people within a family, all contacts between citizens are supposed to be electronic. However, Teo manages to contact and Read More

Se Lo Scopre Gargiulo

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Giuliana de Sio, Richard Anconina, Nicola di Pinto, Mario Scarpetta, Marzio C. Honorato

Synopsis: Teresa (Giulianna De Sio) is a nurse who works to support her lazy husband and her pompous mother-in-law in the hospital named after her famous father-in-law. She must raise $1,000 to save her beloved father. Teresa soon becomes involved in a series of comedic circumstances where she goes to the Read More

Treno Di Panna

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sergio Rubini, Carol Alt, Christina Marsillach, Rosalinda, Irene Grazioli

Synopsis: Giovanni (Sergio Rubini) is an Italian who travels to New York City in this uneven situation comedy. He is mugged as soon as he arrives and his electric guitar is stolen. After working as a waiter in an Italian restaurant, Giovanni lands a job teaching Italian in spite of his questionable command Read More

Il Burbero

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Debra Feuer, Jean Sorel, Mattia Sbragia, Angela Finocchiaro

Synopsis: In this light comedy and mystery film, Mary is a waitress living in New York. She is also a newlywed, blonde, and none too bright into the bargain. One day, she gets a call from her husband, who instructs her to take the next plane to Florence because he's struck it rich. However, when she lands Read More

Joan Lui: Ma Un Giorno Nel Paese Arrivo 10 Di Lunedi

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Claudia Mori, Marthe Keller, Al Yamanouchi, Federica Moro

Synopsis: Viewers should be warned off this failed attempt at farce by its title alone. The film makes just about as much sense. Scripted, directed, and edited by Adriano Celentano a total of $10,000,000 was spent to poke almost violent "fun" at Christ's Second Coming. Joan Lui (Christ, played by Read More

Chi Mi Aiuta...?

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Luca Barbareschi, Geppy Gleiyeses, Victor Cavallo

Synopsis: With a curious mix of classical and rock music and the literary and performing worlds, director Valerio Zecca has ostensibly focused on two disparate roommates and their desire for the same woman while providing a picture of self-absorbed youth with no long-term personal or professional goals and Read More

Uno Scandalo Perbene

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Giuliana de Sio, Valeria D'Obici

Synopsis: Based on a real-life mystery in the newspapers after World War I, this conventional, straightforward story is about a poorly-dressed man who is brought into the police station in Turin for stealing flower pots from the cemetery. He is rather brutally interrogated, and then because he has no idea Read More

Bingo Bongo

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Carole Bouquet

Synopsis: Like his more famous loin-clothed tree-swinging, yodeling counterpart, Bingo Bongo was raised in the jungle by apes. This Italian comedy follows his lively adventures after he is captured, caged and sent back to civilization. There he begins working with a pretty anthropologist who teaches him all Read More

La Ragazza di Trieste

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Mimsy Farmer, Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti

Synopsis: This ineffably bizarre drama stars Ben Gazzara as an American cartoonist who sees a beautiful woman named Nicole (Ornella Muti) being saved from drowning while he draws on the beach. He offers her a blanket, beginning a strange relationship with the obviously unbalanced woman which ends when she Read More

Bianco, Rosso E Verdone

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Elena Fabrizi, Milena Vukotic

Synopsis: The stage comedian Carlo Verdone directed and stars as the three main characters -- Furio, Mimmo, and Pasquale -- in this classic Italian comedy. All three men are driving back to their hometowns to vote on election day, and each has a different story and a different though easily recognizable Read More

Storia Senza Parole

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Elisabeth Long, Lino Troisi, Lorraine de Selle, Dario Mazzoli, Tamara Trifflex

Synopsis: This off-beat mystery is a contemporary silent film that only contains a musical score and a few sound effects. The story focuses on a pair of adulterers. Murder and mayhem ensue. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Il Bisbetico Domato

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Edith Peters

Synopsis: This Taming of the Shrew in Italian is also a take off on the 1970 French film L'ours et la Poupee, and showcases the popular singer/comedian Adriano Celentano as an irascible country farmer named Elia, who locks horns with Lisa (Ornella Muti), a gorgeous society snob. Elia is a notoriously Read More

Mia Moglie è Una Strega

Crew: Cinematographer

Exit ... Nur Keine Panik

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Hanno Pöschl

Mani Di Velluto

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Eleonora Giorgi, John Sharp, Olga Karlatos

Synopsis: Guido (Italian pop-music superstar Adriano Celentano) is a millionaire who has made his fortune by inventing an unbreakable glass. He has everything he wants except for casual sex from a woman who knows nothing of his wealth. While riding the subway, his Rolex watch is lifted by the beautiful Read More

Un Dramma Borghese

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Franco Nero, Dalila di Lazzaro, Lara Wendel

Synopsis: Guido is an international journalist with an unusually difficult relationship with his daughter, Mimi. He hasn't seen her for several years and has just taken her away from the boarding school she was immured in. She is now 15, and for some reason is doing everything in her power to get him to Read More

Attenti al Buffone

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Eli Wallach, Mariangela Melato, Enzo Cannavale

Synopsis: In this intellectual drama, Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who, somewhat like the Biblical King David, covets another man's wife as his own. Unlike David, however, Ras wants to humiliate Marcello (Nino Manfredi), a dedicated musician whose life he has already ruined. He forces Marcello Read More

Yuppi-du

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Charlotte Rampling, Claudia Mori, Lino Toffolo, Gino Santercole

Synopsis: Composer, songwriter, director, producer, and star performer Adriano Celentano has put together this tale of a seedy aristocrat's two loves, drawing upon the inspiration of Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis. Felice (Celentano) has two wives, and he loves them both. His first, Silvia (Charlotte Rampling Read More

Flavia the Heretic

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Florinda Bolkan

Synopsis: A young girl in the 13th century is sent to a nunnery in Portugal. There she is subjected to torture, rape and whippings, but she escapes with a Jewish man named Abraham. She soon takes on a Muslim lover, who leads an invading army that castrates rapists. Amazingly enough, some of this story is Read More

The Night Porter

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti, Isa Miranda

Synopsis: Max (Dirk Bogarde) is a discreet, unassuming night porter working in a posh hotel in Vienna in 1957, tending to the guests' needs, from cold water to a bed-warming gigolo. Then Lucia (Charlotte Rampling) arrives at the hotel, on the arm of her husband, an American composer, and Max's past comes Read More

Sessomatto

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: How Funny Can Sex Be? is an eight-episode anthology film about love, sex and marriage in contemporary, mid-'70s Italy. Some of the segments--particularly those featuring Laura Antonelli and Giancarlo Giannini--are fun, but just as many fall flat. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Sono Stato Io

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: An obsession with fame leads to life in prison for the window-washer in this Italian farce/satire. Biagio Solise (Giancarlo Giannini) loves working on the windows of the skyscrapers high above Milan but feels overwhelmed on the ground by the tumult and pressure of the crowded streets. He makes Read More

Days of Fury

Crew: Cinematographer

Bianco, Rosso e...

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Antonio Alfonso, Bruno Biassibetti, Ezio Curti, Aldo Farina, Sergio Fasanelli, Pilar Gomez Ferrer, Carla Galletti, Francesca Modigliani

Synopsis: This comic Italian melodrama recounts the story of a friendship which develops out of a romantic obsession. The Italian communist party was largely independent of the Eastern Bloc, and has played a large political role in that country, particularly on the local level. This story tells of Annibale Read More

Mortadella

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sophia Loren

Synopsis: The well-known short-story writer Ring Lardner, Jr. wrote the screenplay for La Mortadella, an Italian/French production with mostly English dialogue. The story concerns the difficulties and reactions of Madelena (Sophia Loren), an Italian visitor to New York City. She has come to the country Read More

The Trojan Women

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Geneviève Bujold, Vanessa Redgrave, Irene Papas, Brian Blessed

Synopsis: The Trojan Women is a film of the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, which is a highly mannered, ritual-like stage play. It was not easy to transform it into a movie while remaining faithful to the play, but there are many rewards for the patient viewer. The score by Mikis Theodorakis (Zorba the Greek Read More

La Moglie del Prete

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis: Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni star in this Italian comedy. The story begins with Loren as Valerie, a woman whose suicide attempt, prompted by a romantic disappointment, is thwarted by Don Mario (Mastroianni), a priest whom she called before she lost consciousness. She immediately falls in Read More

Zabriskie Point

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor

Synopsis: Zabriskie Point, director Michelangelo Antonioni's only American film, is an unusual, visually stunning examination of youthful rebellion against the Establishment. The film, initially presented in quasi-documentary style, presents a group of college activists discussing key issues of their Read More

Certo, Certissimo, Anzi . . . Probabile

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Catherine Spaak, Robert Hoffman, Nino Castelnuovo, John Phillip Law

Synopsis: The literal translation of this title is Certain, Very Certain, As a Matter of Fact...Probable. This indeed was the title by which this trivial Italian comedy was known during its limited American release. The star is international glamour plate Claudia Cardinale, improbably cast as a telephone Read More

A Fine Pair

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Tomas Milian, Leon Askin, Ellen Corby

Synopsis: In this 1968 Italian production, Francesco Maselli directs this light-hearted and fast-paced caper comedy with Rock Hudson as New York City police captain Mike Harmon, who becomes involved with sex bomb Esmeralda Marini (Claudia Cardinale). Esmeralda, using the ploy that Harmon was an old friend Read More

The Libertine

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Luigi Pistilli

Synopsis: When Catherine Spaak's husband dies, she discovers a hitherto hidden room on their estate. The room is surrounded by mirrors and curious sexual devices; when Spaak takes a peek at hubby's diary, she learns he was carrying on a secret life that made Sacher-Masoch and Krafft-Ebbing look like pikers. Read More

Galileo

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Cyril Cusack, Lou Castel, Gigi Ballista, Paolo Graziosi

Synopsis: Somewhat overshadowed by Joseph Losey's 1975 film on the same subject, the 1968 Italian/Bulgarian biopic Galileo is a worthwhile picture in its own right. Irish stage and screen actor Cyril Cusack is well-cast as Galileo Galilei, famed astronomer and unintentional icon-buster. Stirring up Read More

Operazione San Pietro

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: An ingenious thief steals Michelangelo's Pieta, worth $30 billion in the farce. The trouble is, he has no buyers and so lets an American gangster have it for $40 and a spaghetti dinner. Meanwhile, the Vatican, not wanting the abduction to become public, sends out a priest to find the thieves and Read More

Dio Perdona...Io No!

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Terence Hill, Frank Wolff, Bud Spencer, Gina Rovere, Jose Manuel Martin

Synopsis: In this grim spaghetti western a murderous robber hijacks a payroll train, murders everyone aboard and then stashes his loot. A gunslinger learns about it and decides he wants the money for himself and so hatches an elaborate plot to get at it. He lures the crook into a rigged poker game, and Read More

Opiate '67

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Fifteen "monsters of modern Rome" are presented in this Italian episodic drama. Each of these "monsters" is highly misanthropic and nasty. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Una Rosa Per Tutti

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf, Akim Tamiroff, Lando Buzzanca

Synopsis: In this comedy, a lovely woman lives and loves freely. Her many lovers do not mind and all are happy until one of the men gets possessive and knocks her around. As the woman recovers in the hospital, her physician suggest she try monogamy for a while. She does, but it is not as much fun and so Read More

Extraconiugale

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gastone Moschin, Renato Salvatori

Synopsis: This three-part Italian comedy with several pretty females is another in a long series of gang-directed efforts. Director Masimo Franciosa adds a surrealistic touch to "The Shower," the story of a dedicated husband who takes a liking to extramarital affairs. "The World Belongs To The Rich" is Read More

L'Idea Fissa

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Lando Buzzanca, Maria Grazia Buccella, Umberto D'Orsi, Luciana Angelillo

Synopsis: Infidelity is the real subject linking the four funny vignettes that comprise this Italian anthology. "The First Night" centers on a naive pair of Sicilian newlyweds honeymooning in Naples. While celebrating their wedding night a friendly millionaire invites them aboard his yacht for a few drinks. Read More

La Marcia Su Roma

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: Comedian Ugo Tognazzi as Umberto and Vittorio Gassmann as Domenico are featured in this comedy-drama about the 1920 march to Rome that saw the beginning of fascism in Italy. As the duo make their way to the capital along with many others, several misadventures highlight the trip, providing Read More

My Son, the Hero

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Pedro Armendáriz, Jacqueline Sassard, Antonella Lualdi

Synopsis: My Son the Hero started out in 1961 as a straightforward Italian sword and sandal affair titled Arrivano i Titani, all about the quest for a magic helmet in ancient Thebes. Well cast (Pedro Armendariz is the star) and extremely well photographed, the original film was still not sufficient Read More

Il Sorpasso

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak, Luciana Angiolillo, Linda Sini

Synopsis: Regarded by many as Dino Risi's finest film, The Easy Life (Il Sorpasso) casts Vittorio Gassman as Bruno, a jaded, aging roue, who introduces young Roberto Mariani Jean-Louis Trintignant to his hedonistic lifestyle.. Previously a man with a purpose in life, Roberto soon becomes as wanton and Read More

La Regina dei Tartari

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: A beautiful warrior queen battles it out with her rivals in this adventure fantasy set in the 1400s. As a girl, the Hun girl was orphaned when her tribe's enemies attack and raze her village. She then is raised by a friendly tribe and with them learns warrior's ways. Complicating her upcoming Read More